Monitoring and modeling approaches for analyze energy, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes into soil of natural, agricultural, and urban ecosystems

Research Unit Leaders:

Costantino Sirca // Serena Marras

Direct measurements (Eddy Coviariance technique) and modeling tools are used to monitor energy, water, carbon, and nitrogen fluxes at the ecosystem-lower atmosphere interface, for different spatial and temporal scales. The research activity allows analyzing the ecosystem behavior (with its relationships and feedbacks among environmental variables), identifying the driving and stressing factors, studying the impact of climate change, and analyzing the role of human activities in altering these processes.